NOUN
- a fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel `Crime and Punishment'; he kills old women because he believes he is beyond the bounds of good or evil
How To Use Raskolnikov In A Sentence
- Sonia's patient love for him finally breaks through and Raskolnikov experiences rebirth and resurrection.
- Clarity appears in those self-directed exhortations of the novelist to elucidate Raskolnikov's motive for murder.
- Istanbul is inscribed on the map of unatoned crimes, closer to Raskolnikov's Petersburg than to Woody Allen's London in ‘Matchpoint’.
- The mother notes Raskolnikov's stubborn nature, mentioning the story of Raskolnikov's insistence on marrying his landlady's uncomely and lame daughter, despite her objections.
- The hero of Dostoevsky's novel - Rodion Raskolnikov - is not a regicide in deed but in word.
- They read Sonia's Bible together, Raskolnikov deeply impressed by the wretched girl's faith.
- Raskolnikov hid the jewelry under a rock in a courtyard.
